Just had a horrible parking incident

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I have just gone to my local out of hours store, and had a horrible experience that has left me shaking 2 hours later. The store has 4 parking bays running parallel to the store. A guy in front of me drove into 2nd space and I drove into last space which is for disabled and then started to back into 3rd space. The guy behind was still sitting in his car. As I was backing he blared his horn at me and stated to shout out me that I had left no room. My parking sensors hadnt started beeping so knew I was still a long way off). I braked and as he carried on shouting i doubted myself so I moved forward slightly, thinking he was leaving. He wasn’t so in the end I had to leave my car with a 1 meter gap and over 2 parking spaces. I went into the store and he followed me. I said I didn’t think I was too close as my parking sensors hadn’t started beeping, but he started shouting at me telling me I had left him just 1inch. He then told me to F off and I just stood there speechless. The shop assistant came over and told both off and told us to both stop. I carried on shopping and waited until he had left and tried to apologise to the shop assistant as I have never had an argument in my life and wanted to cry. He remained outside the shop standing outside the car and my legs went to jelly, but after spending ages shopping left and made a dash for my car. I am now wondering if I was being unreasonable?

I report these type of people to the police via the non emergency number. They like to go and have a chat with the idiots. I hope that would persuade them to behave. I just take the reg number, phone the police and leave them to it. They usually phone you back too to tell you it's been done.

I did have a rather happier encounter not long after that - FIL was driving in London and a taxi driver cut him up then stopped in the road to pick up a fare. FIL beeped rather politely. Taxi driver immediately got out of the car and started to walk towards us menacingly. FIL got out of car. DH got out of car. I got out of car. BIL got out of car. Taxi driver got back into taxi and drove away very quickly!

YANBU but I find it hard to believe you have never had an argument in your life. Serious?
I don't know OP.. men do this A LOT to Women as the precious thread about a.man shouting at a female drive proves. It wasn't you...it's him.. sexist COWARD

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Not quite the same but once my husband and I parked up in a shopping centre car park as we got out he noticed the car next to his side had a small mark like maybe a door had hit it (wasn’t him he every carefully got out) when we came back the rear door on his side had Been kicked and left with a massive dent (also the side my sons car seat is on) clearly they came back decided that it was us that knocked their car and thought the best thing to do was kick ours. I was furious

It's not just men that do it.

When I was heavily pregnant and had spd my husband and I was going to the post office. There was no spaces just outside so my husband pulled over to let me out. This took literally all of 10 seconds. The horrible bitch in the car behind was beeping her horn, leaning out her window screaming at me, sticking her finger up. When I asked her what the fuck her problem was, she launched a full bottle of water out her car window at me, narrowly missing me. Bearing in mind I was about 8 months pregnant at the time.

When the stupid cow got in the queue behind me at the post office, I realised she was wearing her work uniform with a name badge. So I went into her work and told her manager exactly what happened and expressed my concern about her behaviour when representing the company by wearing their uniform. They gave me an update a week later saying her behaviour had been dealt with but they couldn't disclose what action they had taken

I'm sorry that the shop assistant made you feel worse. It feels awful to be scolded when you're already in a difficult situation, especially if you really just need some support. I hope that you can feel all the support from people here and regain some confidence.

I once dropped my daughter off to brownies and parked in what I thought was a free spot but turned out to have a laminated 'residents only, no parking' sign which, in the dark, I genuinely did not see. I was less than five minutes dropping her off and when I returned to my car, with my four month old son in my arms, there was a man standing there who immediately started shouting at me. I apologised, explained I hadn't seen the sign and he still carried on shouting abuse at me. I had to steal my baby into his car seat, in the dark unlit parking lot with this man screaming at me and taking photos with his phone. It really shook me up but what REALLY annoys me is that one of the dads at the Brownie group regularly parks there to pick his daughter up and has not once been approached but it's ok to scream at a woman holding a baby apparently.

On the flip side, when I passed my test a few years ago, I misjudged the angle in a supermarket car park and hit another car. I was mortified and in tears and the male owner couldn't have been nicer. Calmed me down and phoned a few days later to say he was going to pay for the damage and was more worried about me than the car.

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Sounds awful OP .

I'm another saying you should complain to the store. It doesn't sound as if you were both going hammer and tongs - it sounds as if a male was clearly being aggressive towards a female. The correct procedure in that case is to back up the victim and call security to escort the male out of the doors. And to wait making sure when the woman leaves she can do so safely (and doesn't find her car keyed). It would be unusual to find a store that has it's own parking spaces that doesn't have security, at least at night.